Coolest effect is to blowing air onto the hard drive (I tried both)

The fan doesn't port the air around the HDD but blows it straight onto a localized portion of the drive.

It's blowing air out the filter on the side and sucking it in through the unfiltered front

If the fan is flipped over for proper air flow, as another reviewer did with his, its blades rub on the internal plastic grille on which the fan mounts, making a horrid clattering sound

It was drawing air from the front opening and blowing out the side

If you leave the fan in it's original position, it will suck air through the grate and out of the circular area

Flip the fan over in its fan 'caddy' will correctly suck air from the side inlet

Now air is sucked in from the side where the dust filter is- and exhausts out the front edge grill

** that it blows air out to the side vent where it has dust filter (thus blocking airflow outwards)

the air should be sucked IN through the circular vent, blown on the hard drive, and escape through the front grate

The enclosure will still get warm on the outside to touch however and needs to be set down with adequate air space surrounding it

so now it sucks air through the filter and blows it on the Disk

One shouldn't have to re-engineer the mechanical design for proper air flow to provide efficient heat dissipation and reduce dust accumulation inside the case, or modify a base to keep it from falling off the case when it's picked up, or discover the Phillips screwdriver that's included is the wrong size

Fan, on both of my enclosures, blows air out from the side

so the filter does nothing to filter incoming cooling air

There was also a piece of foam packed between the fan and the outside of the enclosure which I initially thought might be a filter, but the fan pulls air in the front and blows out the side so it wouldn't filter the air until after it had passed by the hard drive

It proves that blowing air towards (to) the drive is more effective than pulling hot air out of the box

Popped it back into the motor coil and so far everything working as it should.

I don't like them because I have ears but they work as

Works as it should.

In my experiment, the original box is slightly warm, while the mod one is cool (as 'cold' as you can get)

If your work space gets bumped a

fantastic value and made well.i do want to complement them too much as they will jack up the price.just remember to keep the unit flat and with the fan

It worked as it was supposed to and set up was easy.

Its a drive enclosure, it works as it should

Works as it says

works as it should for an ide drive

I used this to reclaim a

Best of all I have had no i/o issues with the drive.